{{Short description|Ethnic subgroup in Nigeria}} {{infobox ethnic group |group = '''Ezza (Ezaa)''' |population = ~about 1,300,000 (2018 projection)<ref name="subpop">{{cite web |url=http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-clusters.php?rop2=C0095 |publisher=Joshua Project |title=Project - Great Commission Status of the Igbo Cluster}}</ref> |popplace = {{NGR}} about 1,300,000 (2018 projection)<ref name="subpop"/> |langs = Igbo language }} '''Ezaa''' or '''Ezza''' {{Audio|LL-Q33578 (ibo)-Vivian Amalachukwu-Ezza.wav|Listen|help=no}} is a northeastern Igbo group, in Ebonyi State, southeastern Nigeria.<ref name=Falola>{{cite book|last=Falola|first=Toyin|author-link=Toyin Falola|title=Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/monograph/chapter/80262|chapter=Resistance by Violence|location=Bloomington|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2009|page=38}}</ref><ref name="Staurt96">{{cite book|first=James Stuart |last=Olson |title=The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |page=234 |year=1996 |isbn=0313279187 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MdaAdBC-_S4C&pg=PA234}}</ref> The Ezaa are direct descendants of Anakiwha ancestors , the progenitor of Umuekumeyi which comprises Nnoyo, Nnodo and Ezekuna respectively. Ezekuna and his wife, Anyigo are known as the parents of the Ezza culture . They are therefore, often referred to as Ezaa Ezekuna , reference to Ezekuna contribution in cultural reformation earned him the title “father of Ezza nation “.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Early History of the Niger Delta |first=Ebiegberi Joe |last=Alagoa |author-link=E. J. Alagoa|publisher=Buske Verlag |year=1988 |isbn=3-87118-848-4 |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJ7KylvsgYEC&pg=PA92 |accessdate=2008-12-19}}</ref> The group is found in Ebonyi South, They also have many populations in some LGA's across the Ebonyi North <ref name=Falola/>
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